Eduard Baidaus
Interwar Romania and the Great Famine (Holodomor) in Soviet Ukraine,1932–1933
Dr. Eduard Baidus, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC), the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
About this lecture:
This presentation is about famine-genocide in Soviet Ukraine in 1932-1933 that resulted from the Bolshevik government's deliberated policies against the peasantry. The speaker proposes to share some thoughts and initial findings of the research project titled "The Holodomor in the Ukrainian-Romanian Border Region: An Examination of Romania's Response to the Ukrainian Famine." The project aims to study the specifics of collectivization, grain requisition, and famine in the regions of Soviet Ukraine located in proximity to the Soviet-Romanian frontier and Soviet refugees in Romania. It refers specifically to the Moldavian ASSR, a political entity created by Moscow in Ukraine and other Ukrainian districts adjacent to the Romanian border on the banks of the Dniester River. The presenter will refer to the project’s objectives, historical context, sources and materials, preliminary findings, and the importance to the fields of Famine and Holodomor studies, Soviet history, and Romanian studies.
Eduard Baidaus is a postdoctoral fellow at the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium (HREC), at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), University of Alberta in Edmonton. He works on the project titled: "The Holodomor in the Ukrainian-Romanian Border Region: An Examination of Romania's Response to the Ukrainian Famine."
Baidaus holds a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta (2017) and a doctoral degree from the Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of Moldova (1995). He has taught at the “Ion Creanga” State Pedagogical University in Chisinau and worked as a Senior Researcher at the Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of Moldova, before moving to Canada. For his book, The [Foreign] Policy and Diplomacy of Moldova during the Vasile Lupu’s Reign. Political Relations with Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Muscovy in 1634-1653. Chisinau: Civitas, 1998, Eduard Baidaus received the National Youth Prize for Research, awarded by the Ministry of Education of Moldova. He authored three books in Moldova and published a number of articles in Canada, Moldova, Romania, and Ukraine.
Dr. Baidaus has taught at the Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, GA, USA, at the University of Alberta, and the University of Lethbridge–Edmonton Campus. He teaches history courses at Lakeland College in Lloydminster and Red Deer Polytechnic in Red Deer, both in Alberta.